Helping companies make money online

Zuora, a startup that builds software for companies to bill customers for online services, said Tuesday it will join forces with Paypal to offer Paypal’s payment services with Zuora’s billing services.

Zuora’s software lets companies figure out pricing plans, publish prices, take orders, track usage of services, send invoices and remind customers when their credit cards have expired. Co-founder and CEO Tien Tzuo said he realized these were problems after he spent nine years working at Salesforce.com, which licenses online customer relationship management software. “We poured millions into our infrastructure,” he said.

Current Zuora customers will get the Paypal service, Tzuo said.

Financial backers of Zuora, which was founded last year, include Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff and Benchmark Capital in Menlo Park. In September, Paypal president Scott Thompson joined Zuora’s board of directors.